Reagan Library Republican Presidential Debate: January 30, 2008 (Official Thread)

CNN ^ | January 30, 2008

[khnyny]

Reagan Library Republican Presidential Debate: January 30, 2008

SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopefuls will face off Wednesday night without a familiar face as ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to drop out and endorse front-runner Sen. John McCain.

The remaining candidates will take the stage in a debate -- sponsored by CNN, the Los Angeles Times and Politico -- beginning at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday.

The event at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, follows McCain's Tuesday night win in the Florida primary.

McCain topped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 36 percent to 31 percent in the hotly contested race.

Giuliani placed third with 15 percent of the vote, followed closely by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 14 percent, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was fifth with 3 percent.

Giuliani is expected to end his White House bid and endorse McCain at a campaign event in California later Wednesday, Republican Party sources said.

Minus Giuliani, the debate will be a four-candidate affair -- McCain, Romney, Huckabee and Paul -- with CNN's Anderson Cooper moderating.

[keepitreal]

Huckabee “notice me, notice me”

[maica]

I got it and raised you one.

[rintense]

Huckabee: ‘Why am I not getting a question... WAH WAH WAH.’ Because you are irrelevant, Huck. Get used to it.

[Hoodat]

Paul reiterates the DNC talking points.

[torchthemummy]

This better be Ron Paul’s last debate. He is a nutter and of course his nutter posse is “in the house.”

[McGruff]

"I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land. I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way." John McCain - Feb 2000.

What happened John?

[Reily]

I agree “slutty whore” is very over-the-top.
Comments like that belong at KOS or the DemocratUnderground!
She was better then anything that would have been appointed by Carter or Mondale. A USSC appointee that is 70% reliably conservative(Heck even a 51% is better then a 50% or less!)

[exit82]

OK, let’s see McCain, the national security expert, put down Ron Paul, who just got the biggest applause of the night.(Just reporting the facts folks...)

[Pravious]

Ron Paul’s 15 minutes are LONG over.
Huck... no one gives a crap about you. You should be at home, watching this on TV.

[K-oneTexas]

Ron Paul should have slapped McCain on the back of the head when saying they are debating technicalities. Then leave the stage.

[2111USMC]

3600 RPM

[Fred]

Oh dear sweet Lord... I sense my self being drawn to the Paulanistas!!!

LOL! Join the club! Although I might be voting for Romney after hearing McCain tonight.

'We caused 911'

OMG... I take it back a massive brain fart...

[DeusExMachina05]

Why dont you go over to Iraq then, pick out a soldier and stab him in the back. It would be more manly that way then voting for the witch and letting her do it for you.

[furquhart]

That’s because the people in the crowd, like everyone who supports Ron Paul, are traitors who deserve to suffer the fate due to traitors.

[stocksthatgoup]

“Romney is caught”
If you are able to understand McCain’s logic must have been a Kerry supporter. I just don’t get the subtleties

[Tennessee Nana]

You go Ron
LOL

Huck is funny

Ball game

Yes Romney yapps and doesnt say anything of substance

[Cedric]

Yet!

[End Times Crusader]

TehRon the RINO doesn’t belong there with the real Republicans.

[nutmeg]

Before this, I only disliked McCain, and did not trust him. Now, I can not STAND him. What a nasty, smarmy little man.

Same here, MOgirl. McInsane's spreading of that dirty "timetables" lie just before the Florida elections puts him in the same camp as the Klintoons... dirty, rotten, low-life pond scum.

Right now I am SO for Romney, and will vote for him on Super Tuesday...

[HonestConservative]

McCains planning on spending yours.